Yes - it will - however you need to set up the DNS for your domain so it points directly at the bucksvoice server, rather than being a web forward.

At the moment www.thornboroughparish.org.uk is forwarding requests to www.bucksvoice.net/tpc/ - and in this situation it is up to the company doing the fowarding to provide https if appropriate.

Once you update the DNS settings then the Voice system will automatically spot this and will be able to register a SSL certificate for you. It'll then automatically redirect everyone to the https domain.

Since your site is on bucksvoice you should update the DNS to have an A record pointing to 5.44.25.69

Thanks for that... but I got a bit lost! :) I am using 123-Reg (which I know you do too)... which is currently configured as follows:

302 redirect

framed web forwarding

forwarding to http://46.20.114.99/tpc

...after lots of playig around this seemed to give me what I need (thornboroughparish.org.uk in the address bar, a path for the favicon) so what changes do I need to make to get an SSL cert? Is it 301 redirect to 5.44.25.69 instead?

Actually - if you want to use your domain as www.thornboroughparish.org.uk and don't mind about using it without the www bit, then setting up a CNAME (page 6 of the 123.reg help document) is probably better.

In this case, you would set the hostname as "www" and the destination as "www.bucksvoice.net." (note the full stop at the end).

An A record for www would also work.

In their A record example they use a hostname of @ which means the domain without any www part on it. So you only need to do this if you want to use thornboroughparish.org.uk without www on it for your website.

Once you've set it all up then you can reply on here and I'll check that it looks correct.

OK great, so I have removed all web forwarding and set the www A name record to 5.44.25.69.

I assume that's all I need but (for belt and braces) I also set the @ A name to the same IP address.

I have a couple of legacy domains (thornboroughparish.co.uk and thornboroughvillage.co.uk) - am I OK to set these up to web forward to thornboroughparish.org.uk or shall I do the same A name record on those?

Sorry to dig up an old thread... but is there any way to add non-www to the SSL cert please? I would like https://thornboroughparish.org.uk to work as well as https://www.thornboroughparish.org.uk because... well, it's 2019 and people don't really use www's any more.

It's debatable whether people really don't use www. But yeah, Voice will work fine either way.

Just make sure you set up an A record for the bare domain (usually indicated as an @ as the hostname in the DNS settings) pointing to the e-voice IP address. And ensure the domain without the www is added to your site settings.

I've messed up my settings in an attempt to get both www. and non-www. working. Now neither is working.

I have:

@ A 5.44.25.69

www A 5.44.25.69

www CNAME www.bucksvoice.net.

...(plus a bunch of other records e.g. MX for mail) but it simply isn't resolving.

As my old domains are due to retire I simply put a 301 redirect from them (thornboroughparish.co.uk and thornboroughvillage.co.uk) to https://www.thornboroughparish.org.uk but (obviously) that's not working either. Seems you can't use the old http://bucksvoice.net/tpc address any more too!